Cancer survivor among residents opposing mobile phone mast proposal
Hutchinson 3G wants to erect the mast near Clonlara on the outskirts of Limerick.
Kay Broderick, who has fought cancer, said: “All the studies on these things might not show they are dangerous but they haven’t shown they aren’t dangerous either. I don’t think it is safe.”
She said she was just one of many locals opposed to the mast.
Clare County Council has sought additional information from the mast company about the mast.
Ms Broderick said: “I think everyone around here objected to it. This mast would be fairly tall.
“There’s another person on our road who is also recovering from cancer and I don’t think anyone wants to be living underneath it.”
She also claimed that the planning site notice was also located too far from the roadway to read it.
Another local resident David McCullogh said that locals hadreceived very little information about the proposed mast and were worried about it.
He said: “We are primarily against it because we have health and safety concerns.
“We just don’t know enough about it.”
Local councillor Pascal Fitzgerald said masts were springing up all over the area without proper consultation.
Mr Fitzgerald said: “I don’t like the way the companies are going about it. I walk that road all the time and I wouldn’t have known about the proposal except that one resident spotted it and called me.”
